Perth RacecoursePerth Racecourse is a thoroughbred horse racing venue adjacent to the ancient Scone Palace, near Perth, Scotland.British Racing and Racecourses by Marion Rose Halpenny – Page 197 Perth Racecourse at the site in Scone Palace Parklands opened in 1908 and is the northernmost track in Britain (...) More |
Scone PalaceDistance: 0.74 km Scone Palace is a Category A listed historic house and 5 star tourism attraction near the village of Scone and the city of Perth, Scotland. Built of red sandstone with a castellated roof, it is one of the finest examples of late Georgian Gothic style in the United Kingdom (...) More |
Scone AbbeyDistance: 0.82 km Scone Abbey (originally Scone Priory) was a house of Augustinian canons located in Scone, Perthshire (Gowrie), Scotland. Dates given for the establishment of Scone Priory have ranged from 1114 A.D. to 1122 A.D. However, historians have long believed that Scone was before that time the center of the (...) More |
River Almond, Perth and KinrossDistance: 0.85 km The River Almond is a tributary of the River Tay in Perth and Kinross, Scotland. It rises in the hills to the south-east of Loch Tay, and flows eastwards through Glenalmond. It runs through the village of Almondbank, before joining the Tay immediately north of Perth (...) More |
Bertha (Perth)Distance: 0.98 km Bertha was a Roman fortress north of the site of modern Perth, in Scotland at the confluence of the rivers Almond and Tay. It is half a mile east of the modern farm of "Berthapark" and is a scheduled ancient monument. One source contradicts the view that Perth was a corruption of the fort's name (...) More |